A couple months ago, we learned that Guy Pearce had signed on to star in THE SEVENTH DAY, a Fangoria production that's being described as "TRAINING DAY meets THE EXORCIST". A couple weeks ago, it was announced that Vadhir Derbez would be co-starring in the film. Now writer/director Justin P. Lange has rounded out the cast, adding five more actors into the mix. And two of them are popular genre stars.
THE SEVENTH DAY, which is Lange's feature debut, is about
a renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.
The exorcist and the rookie priest are the roles Pearce and Derbez are taking on.
Deadline has learned that they are being joined in the cast by Robin Bartlett as Helen, a New Orleans social worker; Chris Galust as a younger version of Pearce's character Father Peter; Brady Jenness as Charlie Giroux, a young boy accused of a heinous crime while allegedly under the influence of demonic possession; DON'T BREATHE's Stephen Lang as the serious and deeply pious archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of New Orleans; and Keith David of THE THING and THEY LIVE as Father Louis, a mentor to Father Peter in his youth.
The Fangoria connection had me guaranteed to watch this movie already, but the addition of Lang and David has really boosted my interest.
THE SEVENTH DAY will be filming in Dallas and New Orleans, and production is scheduled to begin next month. Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk of Cinestate and Fangoria are producing alongside Kimberly Hwang and Chelsea Davenport. Adam Donaghey, Phil Nobile Jr., Danielle Cox, and Nicolas Chartier and Jonathan Deckter of Voltage Pictures serve as executive producers.
